Email Hoaxes and Chain Letters in the Yahoo! Directory

EFF Chain Letters Archive
Lists text files of various chain letters that have made the rounds.
www.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Chain_letters
Hoax-Slayer
Monthly newsletter reporting on the latest email hoaxes and current Internet scams.
www.hoax-slayer.com
Hoaxbusters
Get information about the fraudulent email chain letters, warnings, offers, and pleas for help, computer viruses, and more. From the Department of Energy.
HoaxBusters.ciac.org
E-Mail Junkyard
Collection of e-mail forwards, funnies, hoxes, jokes, surveys and chain letters, jokes, forwards, fake virus warnings, surveys, petitions, cute little ASCII art, and every other form of forwarded e-mail junk imaginable on the Internet.
www.chainletters.net
Don't Spread That Hoax!
Get the real story behind email scams, virus hoaxes, and other Internet junk.
www.nonprofit.net/hoax
Hoaxkill: Chainletter Hoaxes
Profiles various hoax messages which ask users to forward them to friends for a good cause.
www.hoaxkill.com/chainletters.html
Claire Swire (2)
Sites addressing the origins of the embarrassing e-mail correspondence that began circulating on the Internet in mid-December 2000.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Hoaxes_and_Chain_Letters/Claire_Swire
How to Defeat a Chain Letter
Are you sick of feeling that you have to forward chain letters to avoid bad luck? Read this anti-chain letter.
kith.org/logos/things/chain.html
Bill 602-P (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Hoaxes_and_Chain_Letters/Bill_602_P
Chain Letters
What's wrong with them? Why can't they work? Includes examples and extensive other links.
athos.rutgers.edu/~watrous/chain-letters.html
Truth Miners
Site aimed specifically at Christians and fighting the hoaxes, urban legends, and scams that show up in everyone's email box.
www.truthminers.com/truth
MAKE.MONEY.FAST and Other Internet Hoaxes
Offers introduction to, and warning about, three of the most widely-known Internet hoaxes which never seem to die out.
www.sangfroid.com/writes/hoaxes.html
Chain Letter Evolution
Presents the history, dynamics, motivations, and evolution of chain letters.
www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html
BreakTheChain.org [read review]
Research, advice, and links to help stop the spread of email hoaxes, misinformation, and chain letters.
www.breakthechain.org